Consumer guide favorite household hints

Over 570 pages of terrific hints to save you time, money, and energy on all kinds of everyday tasks and chores around the house - that's what you get in Favorite Helpful Household Hints. If you've ever wished for an easier, faster, cheaper, or less messy way to tackle a routine job, chances are this book tells you how. Over 4000 helpful hints cover every aspect of your household jobs - from painting the living room to cleaning the car, from feeding the baby to recycling leftovers for tasty meals, from child-proofing your home for safety to fixing torn window screens. There are hundreds of terrific tips on buying storing, preserving, and preparing food, so cooks will have a great time with this book. You also get ingenious ideas for brightening up your home with low-cost (or no-cost) design ideas, getting top performance from your car: choosing and caring for clothes: taking the labor out of laundry; and getting spots and stains out of everything from sofas to shoes.